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Nicaragua Seeks Food Self-Sufficiency
MANAGUA - Nicaragua is boosting, with
Venezuelan support, food self-sufficiency
and other development projects within the
Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas
(ALBA), hence the visit by a government
delegation led by Venezuela's Deputy Foreign
Minister Francisco Arias Cardenas.
Farming is essential among those programs,
so the Venezuelan delegation to visit
Nicaragua's Caribbean region includes
Agriculture Minister Elias Jaua.
President Daniel Ortega said the ALBA
Forestal and ALBA Riego projects, and
building a 3,937-feet shipping duck will
make Nicaragua a power in producing grains
and other produce, able to meet the domestic
demand and become a barn for ALBA and
Central America.
The talks with the visiting mission will
also address tourism, financial aid to small
and medium-size co-operative producers.
Current Nicaraguan buys from Venezuela for
over $100 million, include livestock, meat,
cheese, milk, coffee, beans and other
grains.
These ambitious projects will secure food
sovereignty, even during the rainy season.
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